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Wayne Stokeling
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Dr. and Reverend Wayne Stokeling is an award-winning academician, theologian, and celebrated New York City personality. Stokeling has been pastor of the landmark St. John Baptist Church in the Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant for 22 years. Education Stokeling has a B.A. in Business Administration from Mercer University; a Master's Degree in Management and Finance from Georgia State University; and an MBA from NYU. Theological Education Reverend Stokeling's religious education includes the Seminary of the East in NY; the Chandler School of Theology of Emory University; and the London School of Economics and Theological Seminary at Vanderbilt University. Honors Stokeling's recognitions include three honorary doctorate degrees from Luther Rice Seminary in Jacksonville, FL; Fitzgerald Theological Seminary in Fitzgerald, GA; and the Macon School of Theology. In 2007, Dr. Stokeling was selected to participate in Harvard University's Summer Leadership Institute. Pastor of St. Baptist Church (Brooklyn, NY) SJBC is a non-profit church in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant in the borough of Brooklyn. The racial and social strife of the faced by the neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s was a force in the church's growing influence. SJBC quickly grew from 800 square feet to 22,000 square feet. Starting in the 2000s the neighborhood started to become gentrified, a trend that currently continues to this day. Preaching Style Stokeling is an accomplished musician who plays regularly in non-demoninatinal New York City jazz clubs. Meter hymns and gospel music, as well as "Southern African-American close" (whoop) are elements of his sermons. 
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